The envious person grows lean
by Socrates

The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates

Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates

He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- Socrates

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- Socrates

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap
whence everyone must take an equal portion,
most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
- Socrates

By all means marry.
If you get a good wife, you'll be happy.
If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher
and that is a good thing for any man.
- Socrates

Ordinary people seem not to realize
that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy
are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Socrates

An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates

Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates

I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates

He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- Socrates

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- Socrates

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates

The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates

Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates

Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates

He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates

I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates

The shortest and surest way to
live with honor in the world,
is to be in reality
what we would appear to be.
- Socrates

The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates

A system of morality which is based
on relative emotional values
is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception
which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
- Socrates

Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates

Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates

Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates

False words are not only evil in themselves,
but they infect the soul with evil.
- Socrates

I only wish that ordinary people
had an unlimited capacity for doing harm;
then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- Socrates

Our prayers should be for blessings in general,
for God knows best what is good for us.
- Socrates

Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- Socrates

Beauty is the bait which with delight
allures man to enlarge his kind.
- Socrates

My advice to you is get married:
if you find a good wife you'll be happy;
if not, you'll become a philosopher.
- Socrates

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings,
so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
- Socrates

The end of life is to be like God,
and the soul following God will be like Him.
- Socrates

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- Socrates

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
- Socrates

All men's souls are immortal,
but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- Socrates

One who is injured ought not to return the injury,
for on no account can it be right to do an injustice;
and it is not right to return an injury,
or to do evil to any man,
however much we have suffered from him.
- Socrates

I decided that it was not wisdom that
enabled poets to write their poetry,
but a kind of instinct or inspiration,
such as you find in seers and prophets
who deliver all their sublime messages
without knowing in the least what they mean.
- Socrates

The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
- Socrates

Where there is reverence there is fear,
but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear,
because fear presumably has a wider
extension than reverence.
- Socrates

At times our own light goes out
and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude
of those who have lighted the flame within us.
- Albert Schweitzer

Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis

The best effort of a fine person
is felt after we have left their presence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A mother is not a person to lean on,
but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Good for who? Good for what?
There is no absolute "good."
"Good" is simply one person's preference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson

Truth is absolute, but only to one person.
My truth is absolute to me, and your truth is absolute to you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The most pathetic person in the world
is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller

Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa

Resenting someone is a way of never leaving that person.
- Kare Anderson

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us
what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singe

To the world you may be one person,
but to one person you may be the world.
- Anonymous (attributed to Bill Wilson, Brandi Snyder and others)

The shoe that fits one person pinches another;
there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
- Carl Jung

I can't go back to yesterday -
because I was a different person then.
- Lewis Carroll

If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient.
It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person,
"Always do what you are afraid to do."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father;
to his wife, but as a husband;
to his enemy, but upon terms:
whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires,
and not as it sorteth with the person.
- Francis Bacon

Love is when the other person's happiness
is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

True love means putting the other person before yourself,
and honoring the relationship above all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If one does not understand a person,
one tends to regard him as a fool.
- Carl Jung

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The envious person grows lean
by Socrates